Because we have turn-about sun and rain
in a world where weather has gone mad
tumbling over each other too quickly,
the abundant growth of Spring exaggerated,
everything flourishing faster than ever
richly adorning the whole landscape,
surrounding us wherever we look
with burgeoning leaves and flowers,
every hot day and every wet one
enticing our senses, even as
the swift changes set us reeling …
Our reactions too are rapidly
changing – one day we think,
This is Summer, ahead of time,
only to wake to a sudden return,
bewildering in its rapidity, to Winter.
Even as we rejoice, we begin to expect,
reliably unreliable, constant overturning.
October in the Southern Hemisphere is officially in the middle of Spring.
Written for Magaly's prompt for Friday Writings #148: Bittersweet October, at Poets and Storytellers United.
What a clever and heartening poem - although on different sides of the sphere I sense the change October brings just the same - Jae
ReplyDeleteYour poem illustrates the madness affecting the weather (here too) perfectly. On our bit of the world is hurricanes and strangely warm temperatures for this late in autumn. There are still tomatoes and flowers in my garden--in October! That might sound nice, but it's so worrying. I wonder what storms will come next... and I shiver.
ReplyDeleteLove Acrostic poems. This is so beautiful...Rall
ReplyDeleteMore than the weather, I think the whole planet has gone mad.
ReplyDeleteA good Spring to you!
ReplyDeletePK
I absolutely LOVE reading and creating acrostics!!!! Your poem is amazing.
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